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This term refers to the systems and processes by which international health issues are governed, including coordination between countries, organizations, and other actors.
What is Global Health Governance?
This UN agency, primarily responsible for public health, works globally to monitor health trends, coordinate international health responses, and provide policy advice on issues ranging from disease prevention to health systems strengthening.
What is the World Health Organization (W.H.O)?
This principle, essential for addressing global health disparities, involves ensuring that all individuals have the capabilities to lead healthy lives and that no one is disadvantaged in achieving good health.
What is Health Justice?
This 2011 movie, starring Matt Damon, deals with a global pandemic outbreak and explores themes of virus transmission, global health response, and the race for a cure.
What is Contagion?
The paradigm that advances principles of justice and health.
What is the Health Capacities paradigm?
This private foundation, often involved in global health initiatives, aims to reduce global poverty and improve health.
What is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
This model suggests replacing expatriate-led research with a partnership model, where nationals lead projects and receive only technical support.
What is the "annexed model"?
This Colombian singer and philanthropist, whose tour was recently cancelled due to stomach pain, has worked on several global health initiatives, including maternal health, through her Barefoot Foundation, which focuses on improving education and health care for children in Latin America.
Who is Shakira?
This framework, established by Rosenau (1992), is used to describe the intentional order for managing interdependence in global health systems. What is Purposive Order?
What is Purposive Order?
This international aid agency, funded by the U.S. government, works to improve global health through disease prevention, maternal health, and nutrition projects, among other priorities. (RIP)
What is USAID (United States Agency for International Development)?
This framework aims to provide a "road map," "focal points," and "the glue" among various global health actors.
What is Shared Global Governance?
This U2 frontman co-founded the ONE Campaign, which aims to fight extreme poverty and preventable diseases, particularly in Africa, and has raised billions of dollars for global health initiatives.
Who is BONO?
The Human Capacity Paradigm posits that WHAT should be the principle guiding global health governance and decision making on resources on health and health care.
What is “human flourishing”?
This global financial institution provides funding and support for global health projects, with a focus on poverty reduction and improving healthcare access, particularly in developing countries.
This governance issue is characterized by a lack of coordination and collaboration among the various global health actors, leading to fragmented responses.
What is Governance Fragmentation?
This legendary musician founded an AIDS Foundation in 1992, which aims to support HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and advocacy globally.
Who is Elton John?
This process, which focuses on reducing poverty and improving health outcomes, incorporates principles of shared health governance to address the ethical commitments and health equity in various countries’ development plans.
What is the Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP) process?
These organizations, often funded by wealthy individuals or families, play a significant role in addressing global health challenges by funding initiatives aimed at disease prevention, healthcare access, and poverty reduction.
What are philanthropic foundations?
This challenge examines whether governments have special obligations to their citizens' health and how those obligations compare to general duties.
What is "State vs. general obligations"?
The individual who said “You say you love your children above all else. And yet you are stealing their future” at the 2018 UN Climate Change Conference.